BGL was proud to attend and sponsor the Nationwide Federation of the Blind’s 2024 Nationwide Conference, the most important gathering of blind folks on the planet. We’re dedicated to standing beside the NFB in our shared combat for justice and equitable entry for the blind. – Cyber Tech

Brown, Goldstein & Levy was proud to attend and sponsor the 2024 Nationwide Conference for the Nationwide Federation of the Blind, hosted from July 3 to eight on the Rosen Centre in Orlando. The Conference is the world’s largest gathering of blind folks, bringing in over 2,400 in-person attendees. The transformative six-day occasion provides attendees a whole lot of periods, displays, and alternatives to community throughout a wide range of totally different occasions. Moreover, the Conference serves as an area to democratically elect the NFB’s management and set agenda priorities for the 2024 to 2025 time period.

BGL was represented by attorneys Eve Hill, Sharon Krevor-Weisbaum, Michael Abrams, Monica Basche, Andy Freeman, Neel Lalchandani, and Jessie Weber. Eve presently leads BGL’s work on behalf of the NFB with assist from the agency’s sturdy incapacity rights observe space crew. One of many nation’s main incapacity rights attorneys, Eve additionally co-leads Inclusivity BGL’s Strategic Consulting Group, which helps companies and organizations obtain compliance with the legal guidelines supporting the rights of individuals with disabilities. Andy, Neel and Monica attended in assist of the Nationwide Affiliation of Blind Retailers, a company of self-employed blind individuals, most of whom work within the Randolph-Sheppard Merchandising Program.

Attending BGL attorneys had the chance to talk at varied boards, meet with a number of shoppers through the occasion and proceed studying in regards to the NFB’s impactful work. Founding associate Dan Goldstein, who retired in 2017, attended the occasion. Dan first took on the function of the NFB’s counsel in 1986. Since then, BGL has represented the almost 50,000 NFB members, profitable vital victories in groundbreaking and extremely impactful instances. Our work with the NFB has formed how courts interpret the Individuals with Disabilities Act and has sought – and located – justice for shoppers in instances starting from employment, training, know-how accessibility, parental rights, voting and extra.

 BGL sponsored the conference alongside companies reminiscent of Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, Goal, Uber and Delta. We’re dedicated to standing beside the NFB and collaborating in our combat for justice and the breaking down of boundaries that blind folks and their households face day by day. Study extra about our dedication to incapacity rights right here.

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Based in 1982, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a regulation agency based mostly in Baltimore, Maryland, with an workplace in Washington, DC. The agency is nationally acknowledged in all kinds of observe areas, together with complicated civil and industrial litigation, civil rights, well being care, household regulation, and prison protection. Above all else, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a client-centered regulation agency that brings a long time of expertise and passionate, efficient advocacy to your combat for justice.